Testimony of Edward Gresser to Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform "Our long-term fiscal challenge is the result of facts about demography and health costs, and the consequences of these facts. Therefore our policy measures need to be combined with an effort to change the facts: to provide more workers and entrepreneurs despite slower population growth, to have fewer retirees despite an aging population, to reduce health inflation despite new medical technologies, and to promote faster growth in GDP despite slower growth in the workforce."